TEHRAN: Iran's supreme leader has praised his country's contribution to the fight against the Islamic State group, saying it had helped destroy a "tumour"...
DEIR EZZOR: A Russian general was killed while battling Islamic State group militants near the eastern Syrian city of Deir Ezzor, Moscow's defence ministry...
AMMAN: Jordan and Iraq on Wednesday reopened their only border crossing, saying security had been restored three years after the Islamic State group seized...
MOSUL: The Islamic State group destroyed Mosul’s al-Nuri mosque and its iconic leaning minaret known as al-Hadba when fighters detonated explosives inside the structures...
RAWALPINDI: Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR) on Monday released the confessional video statement of Noreen Laghari, a Liaquat University of Medical and Health Sciences...
ISTANBUL: Islamic State militants on Monday claimed the shooting rampage at a glamorous Istanbul nightclub that killed 39 on New Year's night, while police...
ISTANBUL: The Turkish army on Monday accused Islamic State (IS) militants of killing at least 30 civilians seeking to flee the flashpoint Syrian town...
STRASBOURG, FRANCE: Two Yazidi women activists who escaped the Islamic State group in Iraq won the European Parliament's prestigious Sakharov human rights prize on...
PESHAWAR: Two gunmen on a motorcycle shot dead an intelligence officer in north-west Pakistan on Monday, police said.
Akbar Ali, an intelligence sub-inspector, was on...
UNITED NATIONS, UNITED STATES: Nadia Murad Basee Taha, a young Iraqi woman who survived rape and abuse as a sex slave of Islamic State fighters on Friday became a UN goodwill ambassador for the dignity of survivors of human trafficking.
GAZIANTEP, TURKEY: A suicide bomber aged between 12 and 14 carried out the attack on a wedding party in the Turkish city of Gaziantep on Saturday that killed at least 51 people, the president said.
ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan on Tuesday revealed that some suspects were arrested for their possible links with the Quetta suicide attack in which over 70, mostly lawyers and video journalists were killed and hundreds of others injured.
CAMP TARIQ, IRAQ: Islamic State militants fought back vigorously overnight and parried an onslaught by the Iraqi army on a southern district of the city of Falluja, the group's bastion near Baghdad, officers said on Tuesday.